Woods Quotes - Page 16

• I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

  Chad Coleman

  Army, Years, United States

  "Q&A – Chad L. Coleman (Tyreese)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Hurt, Humor

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• It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Night, Wind

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)”, p.3608, Delphi Classics

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• In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

  Alan Paton

  Fall, Dark, White

  Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
  And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
  And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
  Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Moon, Fire

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Writing

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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• A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
  feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

  Susan Sontag

  Distance, Past, Fire

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Gone Away, Silence

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• When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Safe, Definitions, Scared

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.

  Mark Grace

  Team, Jumping, Slumps

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• The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Years, Seven Months, Bridges

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural gas? How in God's name did we make that transition without a Federal Energy Agency?

  Milton Friedman

  Oil, Agency, Government

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• I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

  Grace Hopper

  Sex, Children, Men

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• I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.

  Skylar Grey

  Oregon, Vision, Sound

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  Paul McCartney

  Forever, Touching, Goes On

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• I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.

  Lady Gaga

  Vulnerable, Stage, Humans

  "Lady Gaga Talks VMAs Performance". Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. August 23, 2013.

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• The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

  George Herbert

  Able, Rage, Boars

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371

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• Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

  George Herbert

  Weak

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.321

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• Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
  [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]

  George Herbert

  Half

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• I get fit taking my bike out in the woods.

  Juan Pablo Montoya

  Fit, Get Fit, Bike

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2002.

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• The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Boys, Ideas, What If

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• The woods were made for the hunter of dreams...

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Hunters, Made

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Bloodless Sportsman"), 1922.

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• When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

  Philipp Meyer

  Book, Ideas, Way

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• Think of it! A few more boats, a few more planks of wood nailed together in a particular way at a thrifty cost and all those men and women whom the world can so ill afford to loose would be with us today. There would be no mourning in thousands of homes which now are desolate and these words need not have been written.

  Lawrence Beesley

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Sculpture, Painting, Canvas

  "Ellsworth Kelly creates from all angles". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. May 10, 2009.

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